Spending time in a drug rehabilitation center can be incredibly difficult but also empowering. In this article I will be sharing very personal experiences that I have never revealed before. These experiences have shaped the person I am today.
Of course, I never would have dreamed that over a year of my life during my mid-twenties would be spent in drug rehabilitation, but it happened. I began doing drugs in junior high school, mostly I guess do to the typical amount of peer pressure that most teens get from their friends. I started using drugs with great hesitation, but party after party I got a little less afraid of using drugs and that became my biggest problem. Losing my fear of doing drugs was the single worst thing that happened to me in my struggle with drug use.
Heading to university and being away from family and loved ones allowed my drug problem to quickly escalate. It was becoming much more difficult to hide the fact that I was using drugs regularly.
My drug problem got so bad shortly after that Christmas break that I ended up agreeing to go to drug rehabilitation without any fight. Most drug users, I am told, put up a fight for a while when someone first suggests that they enter drug rehabilitation. But not me. I knew how badly I needed help and I knew that if left alone I would probably allow drugs to kill me.
Going to a drug rehabilitation center was not something I wanted to do but after spending over a year as a patient I discovered more about myself and my addiction. Learning that addiction was a disease and understanding that I needed to feel whole inside to truly beat this disease. Even though I was in my twenties when I first went to rehab, it was while being there that I discovered what being a good person was about, what being a man was. These are lessons that shape me into the person I am today. A stronger person inside and out. I knew that taking care of health and being truthful with myself was the life that I was going to live.
Writing about my struggles with drug use and my eventual time spent in a drug rehabilitation center helps to keep myself honest. It will always be a part of my life, something that will continue to help me grow into a stronger person. I only hope that by others reading my personal journey that they can see the benefit of taking that step to better their own life.
Of course, I never would have dreamed that over a year of my life during my mid-twenties would be spent in drug rehabilitation, but it happened. I began doing drugs in junior high school, mostly I guess do to the typical amount of peer pressure that most teens get from their friends. I started using drugs with great hesitation, but party after party I got a little less afraid of using drugs and that became my biggest problem. Losing my fear of doing drugs was the single worst thing that happened to me in my struggle with drug use.
Heading to university and being away from family and loved ones allowed my drug problem to quickly escalate. It was becoming much more difficult to hide the fact that I was using drugs regularly.
My drug problem got so bad shortly after that Christmas break that I ended up agreeing to go to drug rehabilitation without any fight. Most drug users, I am told, put up a fight for a while when someone first suggests that they enter drug rehabilitation. But not me. I knew how badly I needed help and I knew that if left alone I would probably allow drugs to kill me.
Going to a drug rehabilitation center was not something I wanted to do but after spending over a year as a patient I discovered more about myself and my addiction. Learning that addiction was a disease and understanding that I needed to feel whole inside to truly beat this disease. Even though I was in my twenties when I first went to rehab, it was while being there that I discovered what being a good person was about, what being a man was. These are lessons that shape me into the person I am today. A stronger person inside and out. I knew that taking care of health and being truthful with myself was the life that I was going to live.
Writing about my struggles with drug use and my eventual time spent in a drug rehabilitation center helps to keep myself honest. It will always be a part of my life, something that will continue to help me grow into a stronger person. I only hope that by others reading my personal journey that they can see the benefit of taking that step to better their own life.
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